The Mulligan Guard Ball
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Edward “Ned” Harrigan and Tony Hart were the first team to offer plays with music populated by newly arrived immigrants living in the slums of New York. They began their series of shows about the Irish Mulligan Guard in 1878, and in all did seven productions featuring the drinking, brawling members of the social and military club. In this production, their most popular, they were concerned with the rivalry between th…
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| 1879 | Theatre Comique Original. January 13, 1879 · Edward Harrigan | 153 performances |
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It was the first of the many Harrigan and Hart plays to exceed one hundred performed performances at a time when an extended run in New York generally lasted a month. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p95
But the Mulligan plays had a special draw. Because the Mulligan-Hart enterprise operated as a stock company, its actors remained constant while the roles they played tended to change from production to production. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p96
What’s the first hit song from a Broadway show? ‘The Mulligan Guard’ from The Mulligan Guard Ball (1879)? Hardly; it was a smallish success but it never travelled beyond its theatrical context. book:broadway-babies-say-goodnight-musicals-then-and-now-mark-steyn#p113
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